How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
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Gill's Exposition
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger,.... Not their persons for protection, as he did the Israelites at the Red sea, and in the wilderness; nor their sins, which he…
Barnes' Notes
How ... - Or, “How” doth “אדני 'ădonāy cover.” He hath east down etc. By God’s footstool seems to be meant the ark. See Psa 99:5 note.
Adam Clarke
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud - The women in the eastern countries wear veils, and often very costly ones. Here, Zion is represented as being veiled by the hand of God's…
It is a very sad representation which is here made of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel, of Zion and Jerusalem; but the emphasis in these verses seems to be laid all along upon the hand…
Cambridge Bible
How See on ch. Lam 1:1.
the beauty of Israel possibly the Temple, as in Isa 64:2, or Jerusalem, but more naturally the illustrious ones of the nation (cp. "thy glory" in 2Sa 1:19), or even Israel as a…
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